AT40: Olivia Rodrigo (1) Week Of September 2, 2023

So we are now officially in the month of September and I hope everyone's been having a great Labor Day weekend! And of course, I go back to school on Tuesday. It's going to be my 3rd year of college so hopefully it'll be an amazing school year for me. Anyway. As far as the countdown goes, I thought that it looks so super interesting. We do have another brand new #1 song on there, which of course I'll get to later like always. But other than that, I don't have anything else to say here, so let's get to it! Before we get to this week's Fresh 40, here are the songs dropping out of the countdown this week.

Post Malone - Mourning

Toosii - Favorite Song

PinkPantheress - Boy's A Liar

Last Week's #1 Song: Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer

The Countdown:

#40. Coi Leray - Players (#39)

#39. Noah Kahan/Post Malone - Dial Drunk (DEBUT)

#38. Kaliii - Area Codes (#38)

#37. Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze (#36)

#36. Jonas Brothers - Summer Baby (#33)

#35. Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start The Fire (DEBUT)

#34. Zayn - Love Like This (#35)

#33. Post Malone - Chemical (#31)

#32. Travis Scott/Bad Bunny/The Weeknd - K-Pop (#32)

#31. Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For (DEBUT)

#30. The Weeknd - Die For You (#28)

#29. Jain - Makeba (#34)

#28. Harry Styles - Satellite (#24)

#27. OneRepublic - Runaway (#27)

#26. Pitbull/Lil Jon - Jumpin (#25)

#25. Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed (#23)

#24. David Kushner - Daylight (#26)

#23. SZA - Kill Bill (#22)

#22. Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red (#30)

#21. The Weeknd/Playboi Carti/Madonna - Popular (#29)

#20. Metro Boomin/Thje Weeknd/21 Savage - Creepin' (#16)

#19. Bakar - Hell N Back (#18)

#18. Jung Kook/Latto - Seven (#17)

#17. Doechii - What It Is (Block Boy) (#21)

#16. Dominic Fike - Mona Lisa (#15)

#15. Morgan Wallen - Last Night (#12)

#14. Nicki Minaj/Ice Spice/Aqua - Barbie World (#19)

#13. Lil Durk/J. Cole - All My Life (#14)

#12. Miley Cyrus - Jaded (#13)

#11. David Guetta/Anne-Marie/Coi Leray - Baby Don't Hurt Me (#11)

#10. Miley Cyrus - Flowers (#10)

#9. Luke Combs - Fast Car (#9)

#8. SZA - Snooze (#8)

#7. Fifty Fifty - Cupid (#5)

#6. Taylor Swift - Karma (#6)

#5. Dua Lipa - Dance The Night (#7)

#4. Miguel - Sure Thing (#4)

#3. Rema/Selena Gomez - Calm Down (#2)

#2. Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer (#1)

#1. Olivia Rodrigo - Vampire (#3) [1st Week At #1]

#1 Song This Week One Year Ago:

Nicky Youre/Dazy - Sunroof (2 of 3 weeks at #1)

This Week's Mover and Shaker:

I'm super duper pleased to see Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red and The Weeknd/Playboi Carti/Madonna - Popular (+8) take the biggest jumps this week. They both deserve it! And I'm sure hoping that they should go to the Top 20 soon.

Harry Styles - Satellite and Metro Boomin/The Weeknd/21 Savage - Creepin' (-4) sure have been losing airplay this week. Although I wasn't that happy to see them take the biggest drops\, but I'm sure they're going to be out of here soon.

New Song/s on the AT40 this week are:

Noah Kahan/Post Malone - Dial Drunk: Does anybody remember him? He brought us Hurt Somebody with Julia Michaels back in 2018, and that was a song that I actually enjoyed back then. But I gotta say, this is just a decent song. Although I did hear the original version of this song a lot on Alt Nation and that was outstanding. But they actually played the remix of this song which features Post Malone, who was a terrible singer in my opinion. This remix is just decent. Though the production sounds so outstanding and Noah's vocals sound super outstanding. But of course Post's vocals were awful in his contribution. But I think the chorus was still so amazing and the lyrics were still nice. But this is decent overall. I prefer the original version over the remix. Let's see how this one does on there.

Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start The Fire: This is the only great debut we have this week. So this is actually their cover of Billy Joel's hit song from 1989, except they changed some of the lyrics. As far as the song goes, it's definitely an extremely heavenly song and this is absolutely the best song that I've ever heard from them. It's definitely a humongous step up from Hold Me Like A Grudge and all of their other songs. With my opinion on this song, the production was extremely heavenly, Patrick's vocals were extremely heavenly, the lyrics were extremely heavenly, the chorus was extremely heavenly, everything here was extremely heavenly. This is definitely going to end up as my #1 song of the year. Hopefully this should become a hit on there.

Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For: This is another song that was taken from the soundtrack of the new Barbie movie, which was interesting. But I gotta say, this is also a decent song. She's still not that good of a singer. I mean her voice still sounds childish. Gosh, when is she gonna have a new voice? She's been having that same voice for years. She needs to get a new voice now. But anyways. With my opinion, the production was decent, Billie's vocals were decent, and the chorus was decent. But the lyrics were still very nicely-written, so I'll give credit to that. But this is another decent song overall for me. Let's see how this one does on there.

My Opinions/My Thoughts On The Top 5:

5. Dua Lipa - Dance The Night: I'm pleased to see this song in the Top 5. This deserves to be in there. And I'm sure hoping that it should go to the Top 3 soon.

4. Miguel - Sure Thing: I have a feeling that this song might leave the Top 5 very soon. I know it has been in there for a while because of how it did.

3. Rema/Selena Gomez - Calm Down: I actually expected it to drop. And I'm sure that next week it'll be out of the Top 3. But it still had a nice time there.

2. Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer: It dropped out of the top spot. Buit it still had a nice time in there for a couple weeks. Though I somehow would like to see this come back to the top spot again, but I'm not sure if it'll actually happen.

1. Olivia Rodrigo - Vampire: I'm so pleased to see this song at the top spot. This is now her first #1 song on there since Good 4 U back in 2021, so that's pretty nice to see her come back at this spot. Now, let's see how long it could hold the spot.

My Top 20 Review:

0 - C rap:

None

1 - Bad:

None

2 - Mediocre:

None

3 - Decent:

20. Lil Durk/J. Cole - All My Life

4 - Good:

None

5 - Great:

19. Bakar - Hell N Back

18. Metro Boomin/The Weeknd/21 Savage - Creepin'

17. Dominic Fike - Mona Lisa

16. Jung Kook/Latto - Seven

15. Miguel - Sure Thing

14. Doechii - What It Is (Block Boy)

13. Rema/Selena Gomez - Calm Down

12. Morgan Wallen - Last Night

11. Miley Cyrus - Jaded

10. Fifty Fifty - Cupid

9. Luke Combs - Fast Car

8. Nicki Minaj/Ice Spice/Aqua - Barbie World

7. SZA - Snooze

6. Taylor Swift - Karma

5. Olivia Rodrigo - Vampire

4. Miley Cyrus - Flowers

3. Dua Lipa - Dance The Night

2. David Guetta/Anne-Marie/Coi Leray - Baby Don't Hurt Me

6 - Best Song On The Countdown:

TIE: 1. Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer

Total Score: 92/100 = 92% (A-) [Great]

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